Nothing like a good scandal to start Monday off and this week’s comes courtesy of Warner Brothers, specifically the Arkham Community Manager on the official WB Games forums.

A number of players asked if game breaking bugs were to be fixed in the near future and this was the response:

The team is currently working hard on the upcoming story DLC and there currently are no plans for releasing another patch to address the issues that have been reported on the forums.

If we do move forward with creating a new patch, it will try to address the progression blocking bugs for players, not the minor glitches that do not prevent one from continuing to play. The issues that are not progression blockers will unfortunately no longer be addressed.

We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused for some of you, and want to thank you for having been patient.

So just to be clear, Warner Bros are saying thatthe “progression blocking bugs” that stop you from playing the game may not be fixed until after the next batch of paid-for DLC, and any other glitches will not be patched at all.

It makes a nice change for a developer to be honest and upfront but this probably was not the news purchasers of Batman: Arkham Origins were hoping for.

This sort of behaviour needs to be stamped out, and stamped out quickly. Some of the bugs yet to be patched are truly game breaking, and the 360 version is still suffering from an issue that corrupts game saves.

Chasing more money from DLC before correcting an essentially unfinished game is bad logic and terrible for gamers.

Agree wholeheartedly. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed State of Decay, for example, but refuse to continue supporting it. There are game-breaking bugs in there and having them work on DLC is very frustrating. I’ve refused to buy it and will continue to vote with my wallet when it comes to who gets the money and who doesn’t.

Disgusting news – Even with the relatively small amount of multiplayer i have played (i have only succeeded in getting into a couple of matches & was disconnected from one of them!), it has been horrendously broken.

They aren’t planning to fix it & instead release yet more content… That probably also cannot be played due to above bugs (considering its most likely mp content of course).

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